"At the moment, the state has a backlog of $7.5 billion in unpaid obligations to businesses, hospitals, social service providers and others. Those that go unpaid for more than 90 days — now totaling about $450 million — have to be financed at an interest rate as high as 12 percent."
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.